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Uploaded: 2026-01-17T20:40:58.000Z
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VanEck CEO Jan van Eck on CNBC: “There’s something else going on within the Bitcoin community that non-crypto people need to know about. And that is: ultimately, VanEck has been around before Bitcoin. We will walk away from Bitcoin if we think the thesis is fundamentally broken. We don’t right now, but you always have to look at the underlying technology and the crypto. What the Bitcoin community has been asking itself is: Is there enough encryption in Bitcoin, because quantum computing is coming? And secondly: Is there enough privacy in Bitcoin? And so a lot of Bitcoin OGs or maxis have been looking at Zcash. Zcash is a token. It’s sort of related to Bitcoin with a lot more privacy. The kind of garbage that we got about Bitcoin four years ago was: ‘It’s used for all bad illicit behavior.’ But now everyone kind of realizes that when you move money around on the Bitcoin blockchain, you can see it. You can see it move from one wallet to another. And a lot of people are looking for more privacy.”

Arjun Khemani

569,098 views • 9 months ago

2:21

ANTHONY POMPLIANO IS SUPER BULLISH ON BITCOIN DURING THIS BEAR MARKET: "I own more Bitcoin today than I did before the drawdown and we've got a public company that they own more Bitcoin than we did before the drawdown." "Anyone who holds Bitcoin and doesn't think that it's gonna hit a new all-time high at some point the next two or three years then maybe they don't really understand what they own." "I actually think it's very important that we don't know who Satoshi is... I prefer not to know because I think that one of the strengths of Bitcoin is the fact that it is not associated with any one person." "We are ALL Satoshi?"

Simply Bitcoin

161,140 views • 4 months ago

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“I'm not a huge hater of the institutions. I wasn't a huge hater of altcoins. These institutional products are just kind of altcoins. People can go make their money. Go do your thing. But it's not Bitcoin. An ETF is not Bitcoin. With these centralized projects, you're not getting the core values of Bitcoin, the control, the censorship resistance, the privacy. You're putting it in a centralized wrapper, and if you put Bitcoin in a centralized wrapper, you lose everything that's good about it. It's not Bitcoin. It's just an affinity marketing thing. It's “Hey, you like Bitcoin, go buy my other project." Just like, "Hey you like bitcoin? Go buy my altcoin." It's not the same thing, and I think in many ways it's a step backwards. I don't hate these people, but they certainly shouldn't be celebrated. It's not forwarding our industry if we do treasury strategies, if we do ETFs, we cheer for BlackRock and Cantor. That's a step backwards. It's not something to be cheerful for. It's not a victory, in my opinion. A victory is having more people have direct ownership of real Bitcoin. We now have millions of people who've been onboarded into this fake paper thing that's a claim on a claim on a claim of something that has Bitcoin in the words, but it's not actually Bitcoin. They are never actually holding a wallet like many of us did back in 2012 where somebody sent us that first dollar and you say, "Wow, this is cool. I didn't need to give my ID and I'm able to control and hold this sound money for the first time." You now have a whole generation of millions of people that don't have that. They have some junk fiat product sitting like sludge on their centralized brokerage account at the centralized clearing firm, traded on a centralized exchange, with a centralized transfer agent, and a centralized custodian, and they have to trust six levels of people on a claim for something that has the word ‘Bitcoin’ in it. It's not a victory. It's not a step forward. I don't think it's something that should be celebrated at all.”

Bruce Fenton

23,882 views • 8 months ago

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I was watching a Parker Lewis talk from seven months ago, and it was genuinely excellent. I was surprised to discover that I agree with him philosophically almost 100%, especially after he has voiced some disagreements with me on here. His vision of a Bitcoin standard was clear. Bitcoin becomes the money, pricing mechanism, payment rail, and unit of account. Companies earn Bitcoin cash flows, assets are valued in Bitcoin, and people use their savings to invest and assume risk. His exact words were: “People will have savings. People will still invest. People will still take risks… We’re not all just sitting here staring at our digital wealth.” Correct. That is precisely how I think about Bitcoin. Bitcoin is the apex money and ultimate denominator. I hold it in self-custody. I also invest some of my capital in equities when I believe the expected Bitcoin-denominated return compensates me for the additional risk.

Adam Livingston

23,775 views • 1 month ago

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This is the former President of PayPal talking about using #Bitcoin to make the $7.5 Trillion DAILY Foreign Exchange Market a much more efficient & profitable place. He is talking about building what Strike is building and compared the current monetary rails to a fax machine. I also completely agree with him that #Bitcoin will not be the currency people use to buy goods and services, however, it is a great settlement layer where you can have USD effectively on #Bitcoin rails and do immediate settlements. This is the best explanation of a corporate application of #Bitcoin being used as an invisible service layer that I've heard. If you think the corporates "don't get it" and only Twitter Anon's can "get it" - you're a moron. These people are smart and can catch up quickly with manpower. To put it into perspective, if 25% of the Daily Foreign Exchange market was on #Bitcoin rails it means $1.875 Trillion of daily consistent demand for #Bitcoin. That would equate to a $225 Trillion #Bitcoin Market Cap - assuming BofA's Bull Market Multiple is right. This means - just 25% of this market alone coming onto the #Bitcoin Rails would add $10.5m onto the price of #Bitcoin. Thanks for finding the video!

BRITISH HODL ❤️‍🔥🐂❤️‍🔥

229,736 views • 3 years ago

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“What I think SPX is, is a wake-up call. And I think for the normie, the average person, it literally is best described as being the next Bitcoin, because that's literally what it is. Bitcoin was a wake-up call to show people that value is subjective. And SPX is the next iteration of that. And once you get enough people to understand that the value of the dollar is subjective. It only has value because people believe in it. Bitcoin only has value because people believe in it. SPX has value because people believe in it. And the next step is Well, it's not just money that is subjective in value. It is literally everything is subjective. The entire universe is this subjective entity that is created from our own consciousness. And that's what Like, the purpose of this vehicle, yes, it's going to make a lot of people a lot of money, but the point of that is to wake people up to the fact that the entire universe is this subjective entity. It is not just this, like, empirical machine with interlocking gears and like this orderly machine that proceeds from just like the sum of its parts like no like we are literally the universe creating the universe and that's what spx is meant to wake people up to.” — Crypto Maxi 💹🧲

Tanz Cho 💹🧲

12,294 views • 1 month ago

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“There was never any talk of the risk.” Peter Schiff is just lying at this point. The risk of $STRC was always obvious: it is preferred equity issued by a Bitcoin Treasury Company. Saylor said it clearly: if Bitcoin goes down long term or forever, that is the risk. And what are we seeing now? Bitcoin under pressure. Liquidity rotated into AI and IPOs. Maximum fear. STRC down. That is not some hidden scandal. That is risk premium repricing. Strategy does not magically control STRC’s market price. They can adjust the dividend rate, but the market prices the risk of Bitcoin and Strategy’s ability to keep paying dividends. And when Bitcoin starts going up again, what do you think happens? The same risk premium reprices in the other direction. If you buy preferred equity in a Bitcoin company, you are making one core assumption: Bitcoin goes up over the long term. That was never hidden.

Alex 👽

21,172 views • 2 months ago

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.Erik Voorhees: It’s actually good, from the Trojan horse perspective, that Bitcoin was traceable enough for traditional institutions to tolerate it. “When Bitcoin came out, everyone called it private, thought of it as private. It was referred to as anonymous in every news story. And in some ways, it is very private and very anonymous. But the truth is that it’s also extremely trackable and traceable. It is not private in reality. And the question is, should it have been from the start? And at first I thought, yes, it should have been more private. And that was a mistake in its design. However, I think if Bitcoin had been anonymous truly from the start, like a Zcash or a Monero, it would have had such antagonism from the state. I don’t know that the state could have snuffed it out, but they would have tried much harder. And I think it’s actually good, from the Trojan horse metaphor perspective, that it was traceable enough that the traditional institutions could tolerate it. They’ve never liked it, but they could at least tolerate it because there is some traceability. And that has allowed Bitcoin to grow. And I think in its shadow, that other crypto assets are actually anonymous is very healthy. The strength of cryptocurrency as a concept in society, I think, is served best when Bitcoin itself is not perfectly private, but other assets are. That is a very difficult thing, I think, for the state to combat. And that decentralization of attributes is really, really crucial. So, yeah, I’m very glad that there are other coins that are private. I want there to be more of them, and I want them to be more popular. And I think it’s okay that Bitcoin itself is not.”

Arjun Khemani

23,056 views • 2 months ago

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So, does it matter that Bitcoin seems to be moving away from its cypherpunk roots? Bitcoin ETFs and Bitcoin Treasuries have taken BTC mainstream. So I asked Saifedean Ammous this very question. His answer might surprise you... 👀👇 "If you have very strong feelings about how people should and shouldn't use Bitcoin, you're in for a rough time." "To be honest, a lot of people project too much onto Bitcoin. Ultimately, it's just a bunch of software and anybody can use it in any way they want. Initially, it's a small subset of people that use it and then they start projecting their values onto it. And then over time, they expect it to continue to abide by that," Ammous said. "If it's a successful technology, it's going to be used by everybody. It's going to be used by small businesses, large businesses, governments, individuals. It's money. Everybody uses money. There are 8.5 billion people on Earth, they all use money and they're all going to continue to use money. And Bitcoin is just the best money." Ultimately, the protocol itself is immune to the financial instruments that TradFi has concocted. If people want to lend against their BTC or create complex financial products, that does not actually impact the underlying network. "The way that the protocol works is that it's completely blind to what you're doing with your coins on the Bitcoin blockchain there is no paper Bitcoin there's no such thing as paper Bitcoin there's only 21 million Bitcoin and every node makes sure of that every 10 minutes and then if somebody who has some of these Bitcoin on their private key decides to sell obligations or financial liabilities referring to that Bitcoin under any condition, that's their choice. It's outside of Bitcoin and it's outside of the realm of other Bitcoin users being able to say this is right or wrong and this should happen or shouldn't happen. People are going to do whatever they want with the Bitcoin, including selling access to it or exposure to it in all kinds of different ways. And if you don't like it, you don't buy it, you can stack your own Bitcoin." You can find the full interview for Cointelegraph in the 🧵. If you enjoyed this content, please like 🧡, retweet 🔁 and follow me 👋!

Gareth Jenkinson

34,417 views • 9 months ago

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Chanhyuk: Company doesn’t matter, but it’s about the people you work with. “There’s also something like this. Even though we say we created a “company,” we just used that word because it’s easier for people to understand. But in the end, it’s not really about the company, it’s about the people. Like, who you work with. And what kind of experiences you share with them, that’s what really matters the most. So with these people, whether we go, volunteering or travel somewhere, we always move together as one group. Because if not and later on, when I write and release a song, if we hadn’t shared those experiences, I’d have to explain everything. Like, “I went somewhere and had this kind of experience…” But since we’ve all lived it together, I can just say, “Hey, I wrote this kind of song this time,” and they’ll be like, “Oh, yeah, I get it. I know exactly what that is.” It just makes everything so much faster, right?”

akmerch ⚔️

194,243 views • 4 months ago

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Taylor: I'm reading your body language & it seems like you're not ready. It's a sensitive conversation. Haley: I just don't want heavy. I've had a rough couple weeks. Taylor: Just know, when I talk about it in the DR, & if it becomes a thing, I tried to talk about it with you first. Haley: I came out here to chill. Taylor: I'm just warning you that it's a heavy conversation. If we don't talk about, you're going to see it in a DR. It might become a big thing later. Haley: In what, the real world, that makes me look bad? It kind of sounds like a threat. Taylor: If we don't talk about it, you will probably still see it. And we wouldn't have had the dialogue. So if it's something that you're not able to defend yourself... Production hid the rest of the conversation. #bb28

Tooms

394,021 views • 3 days ago

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One of the most encouraging conversations I had in Red Deer was with the Alberta snowbirds from Yuma. These are Albertans who spend part of the winter in places like Arizona, and instead of checking out politically while they were away, they helped turn Yuma into one of the most unexpectedly inspiring little hubs of the independence movement. In this conversation, they explain that their Yuma team held six pop-up signing events, and at one of the bigger turnouts they saw roughly 350 people show up, with only a handful of canvassers trying to keep up. That is not a gimmick. That is real support showing up in the middle of another country because Albertans abroad still care deeply about what happens back home. That is why this matters. A lot of people saw the Yuma story as a funny social media moment. But it is actually much more than that. It is a sign that this movement has reached a level of mainstream visibility where ordinary Albertans are no longer waiting for permission, no longer hiding their support, and no longer treating independence as some fringe theory that only gets discussed in private. They are carrying it with them wherever they go. Arizona, Mexico, Hawaii, even farther afield. That tells you something important: this idea is alive in people now. It travels with them. It is becoming part of their identity. The Yuma team also makes another point that matters. They were not calling themselves heroes. They said they were just tough Albertans who were not going to put up with any more nonsense. That is exactly the spirit behind a lot of this movement. Not celebrity. Not performance. Not paid activism. Just regular Albertans deciding to do something real because they believe this can actually happen. And in the conversation I say exactly that: the reason so many people are out there, whether in Arizona heat or Alberta wind, is because we genuinely believe this can happen. That is a big part of why the Yuma story hit so hard online. It gave people a visible example of momentum. It showed that support is not confined to one town, one rally, or one demographic. It showed that even when Albertans are temporarily outside the province, they are still emotionally and politically invested enough to organize, collect signatures, and encourage others. That kind of behavior only happens when a movement starts to feel real. People do not go to that kind of effort for something they think is doomed. And yes, a few naysayers tried to mock it or imply there was something improper about collecting signatures outside Canada. But that criticism mostly reveals how weak and short-sighted the opposition is. An Albertan with Alberta identification is still an Albertan wherever he or she happens to be standing. There is nothing absurd about that. In fact, it would be absurd to suggest that Albertans somehow lose their political rights the moment they cross a border for a holiday. The mockery never really landed because it was rooted more in reflexive sneering than in serious thought. What the Yuma story really symbolizes is critical mass. When people start setting up pop-up canvassing events not just in Alberta but around the world, it means the movement is no longer surviving on theory alone. It means people feel momentum. It means they want to be part of it. It means they can picture success. And that encouragement matters, because political movements grow when ordinary people start seeing visible signs that victory is possible. That is why this was such an important little segment. It was not just about Yuma. It was about proof that Alberta independence is spreading, normalizing, and becoming something more and more people believe can actually be done.

Jon Alberta Patriot

16,854 views • 4 months ago

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Anthony Scaramucci on Bitcoin & crypto: "I still like it. I own a lot of it." "I think Bitcoin starts to rally late in the 4th quarter of 2026 into early 2027." "Is Michael (Saylor) in trouble? He's definitely not in trouble...I like it. I like him. I think he's going to be right." "We're at the point in the cycle where the RSI is at an all time low for Bitcoin. The apathy is there. No one cares about (crypto) anymore. If you look at Google searches they're way way down." This is "my 38th year as an investor: When you have RSI where it is, apathy where it is, and it's a thin thin market...a tiny bit of demand for Bitcoin moves the price."

Altcoin Daily

184,780 views • 2 months ago

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Good afternoon, everyone. It was an honor to meet everyone and talk with you at MSTR True North World — among friends, pioneers, skeptics, and the quietly curious. Since January of 2021, I’ve been studying Bitcoin. And over the last 6 months, I’ve spent more than 121 hours interviewing executives, analysts, allocators, CFOs, board members, and everyday Bitcoiners across New York, Miami, Boston, Paris and beyond. I’ve sat in boardrooms and basements, on stages and at poolside bars. I’ve heard ideas sharpened by experience — and caution shaped by capital risk. And what I’ve come away with is simple: Bitcoin treasuries are no longer theory. They are becoming practice. Quietly, strategically, and at the edges of the legacy system. I've come away with three lessons. Lesson 1: No one’s asking “why” anymore—they’re asking “how.” The shift is subtle, but it’s everywhere. In 2021, the question was: Why would we hold Bitcoin on a corporate balance sheet? In 2023, it became: What are the risks? How do we explain this to auditors and boards? Now in 2025, it’s: What’s our timing strategy? What percentage makes sense? Which vendors do we engage with for custody and beyond? Lesson 2: The conversation isn’t just financial—it’s philosophical. This isn’t just about a hedge—it’s about preparing for a world that feels less anchored. Bitcoin represents something beyond volatility charts. It’s about opt-out optionality. It’s about control. That’s why it’s attractive to sovereigns, startups, and mid-market CEOs alike. Lesson 3: Geography matters—but mindset matters more. In El Salvador, Bitcoin is infrastructure. In Paris, it’s a hedge against monetary orthodoxy. In New York, it’s a bet on innovation. But everywhere I go, the common thread isn’t politics or price—it’s resilience. The smartest people in capital markets today are quietly exploring how Bitcoin can help them withstand turbulence — not chase returns. The world is shifting beneath our feet. Inflation targets are guesses. Debt ceilings are flexible. Global trust in fiat systems is fraying. And in that context, Bitcoin isn’t just a tech play — it’s a strategic reserve choice. The positioning has shifted. We’re no longer betting on Bitcoin. We’re acknowledging it. That’s the future we’re walking into — not maximalist or minimalist, but realist. Realists are saying: “Let’s not put 100% of our reserves into this—but let’s not ignore it either.” They’re adding 1%, 2%, 3%—quietly. And what that means is: the next chapter of adoption won’t necessarily be loud. It’ll be layered into spreadsheets, policies, and quarterly risk disclosures. But none of this happens in a vacuum. Bitcoin isn’t just about bytes and blocks — it’s about people. The community I’ve met through these 121 hours—analysts, entrepreneurs, regulators, CFOs—they all have something in common: They’ve had the conversation. They’ve questioned the system. They’ve reached for something sturdier, even when it felt risky. In that way, Bitcoin treasuries aren’t just about capital reserves. They’re about emotional reserves. About saying: “We want to build something we believe in—even if it’s hard to explain on CNBC.” So what’s next? We’re entering a phase where Bitcoin will coexist with the legacy system—not replace it overnight. Treasuries won’t go all in. But they’ll lean in. They’ll study, they’ll test, and eventually, they’ll move. And as that happens, it won’t be a parade. It’ll be a process. So my invitation to you—whether you’re a Bitcoiner, a builder, a skeptic, or a steward of capital — is this: Keep having the conversation. Keep asking “how.” And most importantly—stay connected to the people who are asking questions of you. Because at the intersection of code and community, we’re building the next generation of financial truth. Thank you. Let’s keep going.

Tim Kotzman

30,231 views • 1 year ago

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WOW! 🔥🔥🔥 Bill Maher offers a positive and thoughtful reflection on his meeting with President Trump at the White House: “As you know, 12 days ago I had dinner with President Trump—a dinner that was set up by my friend Kid Rock, because we share a belief: there’s gotta be something better than hurling insults from 3,000 miles away. Okay, so meet up in person. Maybe it’ll be different. Spoiler alert: it was. The guy I met is not the person who, the night before the dinner, shit-tweeted a bunch of nasty crap about how we thought this dinner was a bad idea, and what a deranged asshole I was. I read it and thought, “Oh, what a lovely way to welcome someone to your house.” But when I got there, that guy wasn’t living there. Now, does Trump want respect? Of course—who doesn’t? Just for starters: he laughs. I’ve never seen him laugh in public, but he does—including at himself. And it’s not fake. Believe me, as a comedian of 40 years, I know a fake laugh when I hear it. Look, I get it. It doesn’t matter who he is at a private dinner with a comedian—it matters who he is on the world stage. I’m just taking it as a positive that this person exists, because everything I’ve ever not liked about him was, I swear to God, absent. I’ve had so many conversations with prominent people who are much less connected—people who don’t look you in the eye, people who don’t really listen because they just want to get to their next thing, people whose response to things you say just doesn’t track, like… what? None of that with him. And he mostly steered the conversation to, “What do you think about this?” I know your mind is blown—so is mine. There were so many moments when I hit him with a joke or contradicted something—and no problem. I never felt I had to walk on eggshells around him. And honestly, I voted for Clinton and Obama, but I would never feel comfortable talking to them the way I was able to talk with Donald Trump. That’s just how it went down. A crazy person doesn’t live in the White House. A person who plays a crazy person on TV a lot lives there—which, I know, is fucked up. It’s just… not as fucked up as I thought it was. Trump was gracious and measured. Why he isn’t that in other settings, I don’t know—and I can’t answer.”

I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸

340,548 views • 1 year ago

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ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI ON BITCOIN & CRYPTO: "I STILL LIKE IT. I OWN A LOT OF IT." "I THINK BITCOIN STARTS TO RALLY LATE IN THE 4TH QUARTER OF 2026 INTO EARLY 2027." "IS MICHAEL (SAYLOR) IN TROUBLE? HE'S DEFINITELY NOT IN TROUBLE... I LIKE IT. I LIKE HIM. I THINK HE'S GOING TO BE RIGHT." "WE'RE AT THE POINT IN THE CYCLE WHERE THE RSI IS AT AN ALL-TIME LOW FOR BITCOIN. THE APATHY IS THERE. NO ONE CARES ABOUT CRYPTO ANYMORE. IF YOU LOOK AT GOOGLE SEARCHES, THEY'RE WAY, WAY DOWN." "THIS IS MY 38TH YEAR AS AN INVESTOR: WHEN YOU HAVE RSI WHERE IT IS, APATHY WHERE IT IS, AND IT'S A THIN, THIN MARKET... A TINY BIT OF DEMAND FOR BITCOIN MOVES THE PRICE."

Vivek Sen

64,512 views • 18 days ago

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